Dialogue

 1 Repub|       at the same time to be an imitator and imitate many other parts
 2 Repub|   prefer only to admit the pure imitator of virtue. ~Yes, I said,
 3 Repub|     offered we inquire who this imitator is? ~If you please. Well,
 4 Repub|     fairly designate him as the imitator of that which the others
 5 Repub|      the descent from nature an imitator? ~Certainly, he said. ~And
 6 Repub|       And the tragic poet is an imitator, and, therefore, like all
 7 Repub|       to be so. ~Then about the imitator we are agreed. And what
 8 Repub|        Of appearance. ~Then the imitator, I said, is a long way off
 9 Repub|      Here is another point: The imitator or maker of the image knows
10 Repub| knowledge? ~True. ~But will the imitator have either? Will he know
11 Repub|     pretty well agreed that the imitator has no knowledge worth mentioning